About the artwork
Regatta op het IJ
71 x 74 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed: Bottom Left
Exhibited:
Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Willem Paerels 1878-1962, 3 March-16 April 1978, no. 43. Laren, Singer Museum, Willem Paerels, 28 April-11 June 1978, cat. no. 43.
Provenance:
Collection Mr Zunz, Brussel.
Willem Paerels, born in Delft (Holland) 1878 he died in Braine-l’Alleud (Belgium) 1962. By birth Willem Paerels had the Dutch nationality but he changed to the Belgian nationality.
He was self-taught. At first he painted impressionistic, than he followed the fauvistic stream and at last he was with the Flamish expressionistic painters. Willem Paerels painted portrets, figures, still-lives and landscapes.
Works by Willem Paerels in museums in Antwerp and Brussels (Belgium), the Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague) and Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
